Noone is forgetting China. In the context of democratic elections, adictator's comment still has merit.

I think adictator's first point has merit, especially because it is couched as something that is arguably true.

The problem is the generalization-stated-as-fact that the second point tries to make: there are all kinds of things (e.g. building transit networks and power grids) that other countries do that are definitely on a comparable scale to India's efforts.

I'm not genuinely not trolling, but is China really a democracy? I have been to China and I think it's far from being a democracy.

China is not a democracy. It's a communist country. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communism

He said "almost anything that India does is at an impressive scale". Nowhere he talked about elections.

Also elections in India are pretty much rigged especially because of people buying votes.